Saturday, October 14, 2006

Demon of the Waters : the True Story of the Mutiny on the Whaleship Globe by Gregory Gibson describes an event from American naval history. The major portion of the text is discussing a new primary source about the mutiny which has recently come to light. Unfortunately after making such a big deal about the source we don't actually get the complete text of it. What seems to be a rather strange oversight if it was as important as the author makes out.

Besides the actual story of the mutiny there is a good description of wailing both the mechanics of the hunt and its social impact on Nantucket. There is a nice section of explanatory notes a bibliography.